kigugu

How to say it

Meaning

growing wild and in confusion, like weeds, without order.

Good to know

jenga kigugu means to build in a disorderly way, not in straight rows, diminutive of gugu, weed.

Examples

• Waliangalia mimea ikiota kigugu shambani.They watched the plants growing wild in the field.
• Kwa nini nyumba hizi zimejengwa kigugu hivi?Why were these houses built so haphazardly?
• Hawakupanga nyumba kigugu, kila kitu kilikuwa na mpangilio.They did not build the houses haphazardly, everything was orderly.
• Mimea ilikua kigugu baada ya bustani kutelekezwa.Plants grew wild after the garden was abandoned.